[Lazarus] TSplitter

[Bernd Kreuss]

On 21.08.2010 21:19, Dimitri Smits wrote:
> it seems you are comparing Java with the pascal world.

It was more about GUI design and layout managers in general. This is not
a Java thing. I only mentioned the layoutmanager that comes with
netbeans (it is not one of those that come with Swing out of the box,
they have created their own) and the Form designer they created on top
of it because it works quite well.

Actually I have spent most of my time with wxWidgets (formerly
wxWindows) and wxPython and there the concepts of layout managers are
basically same as they are in many other toolkits (Tk is another one I
have used a few times).

I find the balance between strictly absolute positioning (the null
layout in Java that you mentioned) and the possibility of automatic
sizing while still having a decent visual designer that lets the user
smoothly and intuitively interact with it even in the presence of size
constraining mechanisms (anchors) extremely well thought out and
implemented in Lazarus. But this does not mean that there isn't room for
even more improvement.